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Upcycling of polyvinyl chloride into polyalphaolefin lubricants

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By Connor Thompson, Jingtao Zhang, Seungjoo Lee, Tridip Das, Yue Zhang, Clark Vu, John B. Matson, Ali Erdemir, William A. III, Xi Chen, Guoliang Liu, Eric Munyaneza Nuwayo, Abby Civiello, Adrian DiMarco, Gugyeong Sung, Shelby Koshak
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Abstract Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a thermoplastic used ubiquitously in households and industry owing to its light weight, mechanical strength, durability, low cost and ultraviolet and fire resistance1,2. With a production volume of about 60 million tonnes annually2, post-consumer and post-industrial PVC waste pose marked environmental challenges, such as leaching chlorohydrocarbons and additives, which contaminate groundwater and soil1,2,3,4.
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